True leaders are ladder builders; they're not ladder climbers. The ladder builder is always saying, "What can I do to help you? How would I make you successful?"
— David Brewer III
FIND a WAY to WIN at something EVERY DAY
It doesn’t have to be big. Some of the best days are made up of one or more small victories. Those incremental wins add up to meaningful change over time.
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What do you really believe makes a difference in the company? For me, it's really clear. It's about customers and employees. Everything else follows.
— Anne M. Mulcahy
Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success – you will be empowered and you will achieve.
— Ursula Burns
Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.
— Brené Brown
I believe 95 percent of achieving anything is knowing what you want. That's especially important for someone who is leading others.
— John Maxwell
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
— Jim Rohn
If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.
— Seth Godin
A meaningful life isn’t found, but created through our actions.
— Steve Bloom
The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
— George Orwell
If business can become more intentional about decency, I believe it can become a healing force our world so badly needs.
— Bill Boulding
You are your own teacher. Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
— Ajahn Chah
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear.
— James Neil Hollingworth
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the think you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There are some people whose confidence outweighs their knowledge, and they’re happy to say things which are wrong. And then there are other people who probably have all the knowledge but keep quiet because they’re scared of saying things.
— Helen Jenkins
Repeat the words, 'It's not about me!' every day, multiple times a day...Make leadership about the organization, serving others, and not taking yourself so darn seriously. You'll have people lining up to work with you, and the results will follow.
— Jeff Harmon
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
— George S. Patton
Surrounding yourself with people who are actively and enthusiastically working toward their best futures will keep you moving toward your own goals.
— Leah Busque
They always say that time changes things, but you have to change them yourself.
— Andy Warhol
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Leaps of greatness require the combined problem-solving ability of people who trust each other.
— Simon Sinek
Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
— Margaret Wheatley
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
— Spencer Johnson
It's not about you; it's about the influence you have on others.
— Walt Rakowich
There is no passion to be found playing small--in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
— Nelson Mandela
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
— Viktor Frankl
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
— Susan Cain
Everything you ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
— George Addair
Get busy living or get busy dying.
— Morgan Freeman as "Red" in The Shawshank Redemption
The more you can be authentic, the happier you're going to be, and life will work itself around that.
— Melinda Gates
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